Will Dark Alex Firmware/Popstation Cause Sony to React Nastily Towards PSP Hacking ?

[Tinnus]

Most, and I do mean, most people who have a PSP don't even know about homebrew and stuff, let alone get around all the hassle to play those PS1 games. And Sony wouldn't want to any public moves to draw more attention (and users) to those "features".

Also, Sony is really dumb for including a full emulator in the PS1 store games. REALLY. If they're clever enough for writing a PSX emulator that runs that well (and I have my doubts Sony wrote 100% of it and didn't "borrow" some code from open source stuff) they would be clever enough to send at least part of the game, or it all, pre-translated instead of emulating everything on-the-fly.

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[Datahax]

I'm being 100% honest here and I would hate it if this happened but why don't they just hire Dark_Alex. It would be such a simple solution for them and it would garuantee them a secure firmware.

Because

1. Dark-Alex probably wouldn't sell out

2. Even if he did, someone would come along to take his place eventually.

3. Why hire Dark-Alex? For what purpose? They probably have more skilled people anyway and it'd be easier and cheaper for them in the long run to try and find a new way to better secure the PSP. Also there's the possibility that someone is purposefully not securing these things as well as they should, I mean honestly if Sony really wanted to stamp out this problem they could of done it a long time ago by making a ton of super complicated security checks. So why haven't they? Then again, why not just let homebrew through with some restrictions? I dunno what they're thinking....

[Emeriastone]

It just goes to show that people don't want to pay moolah for something they already own! And who can blame them?

Thank you Dark-Alex.

[acn010]

Because

1. Dark-Alex probably wouldn't sell out

2. Even if he did, someone would come along to take his place eventually.

3. Why hire Dark-Alex? For what purpose? They probably have more skilled people anyway and it'd be easier and cheaper for them in the long run to try and find a new way to better secure the PSP. Also there's the possibility that someone is purposefully not securing these things as well as they should, I mean honestly if Sony really wanted to stamp out this problem they could of done it a long time ago by making a ton of super complicated security checks. So why haven't they? the PSP.

and another thing is that people wont upgrade anymore if something really terrible happend

[DKing]

Just put this into perspective - nearly everyone who has seen this, has upgraded. Take into account the millions of people on the internet, who will now be playing Playstation One games for free and with ease. This HAS to effect Sony.

Do you really think there are millions of people out there with PSPs that can even run 3.02OE-B? I'm kind of doubting that.

It's good news for those who have but I think to the average PSP user it doesn't mean anything.

I'd be curious as to what the actual percentage of hackable PSPs still out there is. My feeling is that it's not really that high but who knows...

[808]

1. Dark-Alex probably wouldn't sell out

Every man has his price - if Sony offered him a job and he took it, I think most of us would support him.

[PSmonkey]

Few miss conceptions in this thread. The ps1 dl are not trying to get people to buy a ps3. The whole issue is over security and time constraints. Sony Store is a big part of the ps3 (not psp). Ps1 downloads were a big part of the psp. Sony is working on suport so ps3 units can play ps1 downloads and also that the Sony store will be accessable via the PSP.

Most, and I do mean, most people who have a PSP don't even know about homebrew and stuff, let alone get around all the hassle to play those PS1 games. And Sony wouldn't want to any public moves to draw more attention (and users) to those "features".

Also, Sony is really dumb for including a full emulator in the PS1 store games. REALLY. If they're clever enough for writing a PSX emulator that runs that well (and I have my doubts Sony wrote 100% of it and didn't "borrow" some code from open source stuff) they would be clever enough to send at least part of the game, or it all, pre-translated instead of emulating everything on-the-fly.

I question why sony would need to borrow from the open source comunity. Sony owns the full source of bleem & Virtual Game Station. As well of course has the full documentation of both psp and ps1. I think using stuff from the scene would be a huge step back from what they already have.

I agree on the fact most pople dont have access to a PSP that can run this custom firmware. This alone will help sony greatly.

[gunntims0103]

The thing that i found quite laughable is that Sony basically gave us the ps1 emulator, intern they basically did the homebrew scene,AC, and yoshi's job for us. I dought that Sony knew this was gonna happen and that someone would figure out how to decrypt there fireware to an extent to where we can play out own ps1 games.

[Tinnus]

Hmm, I forgot about Bleem and VGS. Yeah, that would be very helpful considering how good (and fast) they were.

I just found some funny coincidences while playing some games. Might only be coincidences though, and I'm just being paranoid. But it's fun to think that stuff

Anyway, I just want bilinear filtering (why the HECK didn't Sony add an option for that?) and a wide screen mode that cuts the top & bottom (like PS1P). Most games don't need the top/bottom 16 or so pixels, and some even have black stripes (crash, ff7, ...)

I wonder if it would be possible to change the actual CODE of the emulator for things like turning on filtering (depending on how Sony did the GPU, assuming you have access to the assembly code it shouldn't be so hard), or it would mess the encryption and such.